A 5.7-magnitude earthquake has struck Afghanistan with strong tremors felt in the capital Kabul and in Islamabad in neighboring Pakistan.
NATO forces have killed four Afghan police officers and wounded two civilians in an airstrike in Afghanistan's eastern province of Ghazni.
Taliban militants stormed an Afghan court on, killing at least 44 people in a bid to free insurgents standing trial.
The Afghan government has ordered the withdrawal of US forces from Wardak and Logar within two weeks for fuelling insecurity and instability in the provinces neighboring the capital Kabul.
A bomb exploded among spectators at a bird fight in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing a teenager and wounding up to eight other people, police said.